 Actively encouraged and financed by the Comintern (under the provisions of the "Popular Front" doctrine), "Amicii URSS" was viewed with suspicion by authorities — never officially registered, it was eventually banned on the orders of Premier Gheorghe Tătărescu on November 25, 1934.It ceased its activity after that point, but constituted a precedent for the "Romanian Society for Friendship with the Soviet Union" (ARLUS).The grouping included several early or future PCR activists.